It's possible that I wasn't looking closely enough, but I don't feel like I've heard many Democrats talking about gun restrictions in a good while. I remember it coming up after mass shootings, but it seems like they've realized that talking about it doesn't do them any favors

One thing to remember is that all of those states have a decent number of voters on both sides. Without winner take all Trump's supporters in California and Clinton's voters in Texas would mean something. And anyways, it would still be one person one vote. It's not like voters in those states would have any more power than you do like it is now under the electoral college.

I may be wrong on this, but I really get the impression that the electoral college as it stands will almost always benefit Republicans. Without the electoral college, Democrats would have won the past 5/6 elections and the country might look pretty different. Those Republicans also control the majority of states that would be needed to make a constitutional amendment.

I think that winner take all is unfair and means that huge parts of the country have no reason to vote, but I don't expect that to be enough for the Republican party to be interested in letting go of power. As much as I dislike our current system, I see no reason to imagine it changing.

That was what the North wanted, but they needed the South to sign the Constitution. If this hadn't happened we might not be one nation. I think that this is the kind of compromise that no one likes but is sometimes needed in politics.

I'm this way with Soul Calibur 5. They clearly released an unfinished game, took away fan favorite characters and replaced them with anime cliches and the servers can mean games lag out way more often than they should.

But I can't get enough of the multiplayer and there's clearly something there since the community is still active. I wish they could make a sequel that would do things right again and win over the old fans, but in the meantime I'm still happy to play SC5.

Are there still major performance issues? I was really anticipating XCOM 2 and was holding off on that until it was resolved. I was under the impression that they never really fixed it, but I did recently build a new computer with a 1080 so I could always brute force it. If changes are coming I can keep waiting, but it's pretty late to hope for major improvements at this point.